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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
SOUTHERN STANDARD TENNEssEEsHmDN MAR U87

to crush it Furnaces will be supplied
under the cars, connected with hot
air pipes running through the sides,
and thorough ventilation will be Sc
cured. The upholstery will be chemi-
cally treated so as to resist fire, and
the seats will be so bolted to the frame
work of the car that it will be inn
possible for them to break loose
There will be no woodwork to splint-
er or burn, and the platform will be
so built as to prevent telescoping. II
is claimed that such a car can be built
at a cost no greater than that of the
present wooden car.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
A Paradise For Tramps.
st, Nicholas,

st. Nicholas
The Karg gas-well was discovered
in Findlay, Ohio, about fifty miles
south of Toledo, on January 20, 1886.
The gas was conducted forty-eight
feet above the ground, through
a six-inch iron pipe, and when light
ed the flame rose from twenty to
thirty feet above the pipe. 1t is diff
ficult to exaggerate the magnificent
and impressive effect of this burning
well at night. The noise of the escap-
ing gas is like the roar of Niagara
The whole town is brightly illuminat-
ed by the light of the flame.
When / made my visit to the well,
one evening in February, 1886, snow
covered the ground to the depth of
three or four inches; but for distance
of two hundred yards in every direc-
ton, the heat of the fame had melted
the snow from the ground, and the
grass and weeds had grown two or
three inches in height. The crickets
also seemed to have mistaken the
season of the year, for they were en-
livening the night with their cheer
full song. The neighborhood of the
well was also paradise for tramps.
noticed one who lay soundly Sleep
ing with his head in a barrel, and the
rest of his body projecting outward to
receive the genial warmth from the
flame high up in the air above. Cold
as it was all around, he slept in per-
feet comfort upon the turf and in the
open air. There was no danger OF
his suffering within that charmed
circle,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
The Proper Way to Read.

Kate SanbOrn in Atlanta Constitution.
A gentleman who is proprietor of
one of the largest and most popular
hotels in one of our large cities must
be busy man. Yet l know such a
one who is one Of the best and most
satisfactory takers that 1 meet. I
said to him one day, "Do let me ask
you how it is that you find time to be
informed on all the news of the day
and can talk intelligently on new
books, politics, etc." He said:
"When I was a poor boy, working
hard all day, kind old gentleman
used to lend me his New York daily
after he had read it. One night this
occurred to me, What can / remem-
Der of what l have read for the past
three weeks? What has been going
on in England, in Germany, in
France? What new books have been
published? What progress has been
made, and in what direction?' So
putting aside my precious papers, l
went all around the circle-politics,
arts, news, literature, etc.-till felt I
was certain of some things. / have
kept up that habit ever since. What
/ read / make mine, and if l can't
read book 1 read a good review of it
and feel that have perhaps the best
of it,"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05

peeling a mess of potatoes, or rocking
the cradle. We have no patience
with the man who can find nothing
to do at home. He is a failure, a
miserable failure. He brings suffer
ing to all connected with him, and
everything alive around him suffers
from his neglect. He will fail, and
he ought to fail. The intelligent,
competent farmer never goes to town
unless he has business there, and
when his business is done, he goes
home, and finds something to do.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
Something To Do.

GAS there is nothing for me to do
at home, l will go to town and see
what is going on" says the poor
farmer. No other ever uses such
language. 1t is poor farmer indeed,
who cannot always find something to
do at home. Such a one will never
find that farming pays. He had
rather sit on dry-goods boxes at the
store, or loaf at some. hotel or saloon,
than remain at home about his bust
Hess. He is naturally lazy in mind
and body. Besides, he is mentally
blind, or he would always be able to
see something to be done at home, no
matter what the weather may be;
and he would also see that loafing
and sitting around in the village
could never make a successful farmer.
If there is nothing to do at the barn,
in the courthouse, or in the stable, he
can pretty generally find something
to do in the house. Probably the
celler, or the stuff stored in it, de-
mands his attention; and there is his
wife, drudging from daylight until
bedtime, and perhaps, past the time
when she ought to be in bed, he can
always do something to help her out,
and she will be very grateful for a
little aid, fit is nothing more than
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
A Car Built Of Steel.

A party of Boston capitalists have
quietly undertaken to solve the prob
lem of the safety of railroad passen-
gers by the construction of steel car,
which will neither smash, splinter,
nor burn, and expect to have sam
pie ready for inspection and trial in
two months. The car will be built
entirely of malleable steel, and in a
sort of cylindrical form, thoroughly
braced, 80 that it will be impossible
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05

Hog Cholera DC Seld everywhere or sent BY mail for c In
Circulars free /. s. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
ITO be or Not to Be" an Elocutionist
According to BillNye.

1 have heard great many people
speak the piece, beginning, "To beor
not to be-" but Mr.. Booth does it bet
ter than anyone ever heard. bonce
heard an elocutionist-kind of a
smart Alickutionist, as my friend,
the Hoosier Poet, would say. This
man recited "To be or not to be- in
a manner which, he said, frequently
brought tears to eyes unused to weep.
He recited it with his right arm
socked in his bosom up to the elbow,
and his fair hair tossed about over his
fair brow. His teeming brain, which
claimed to be q kind of four-horse
teaming brain, as it were, seemed to
be on fire, and to all appearances he
was indeed mad. So were the peo-
pie who listened to him. He Kissed
it through his clenched teeth and
snorted it through his ripe, red nose,
walled it up into the ceiling and
bleated it down the aisles, rolled it
over and over against the rafters of
his reverberating mouth, handed it
out in big capsules, or Missed it
through the puckered atomizer Of a
mouth, walled and beloved like a
wild and maddened tailleSs steer in
fly time, darted across the stage like
headless hen, ripped the gentle at
mosphere into shreds with his gui-
nea hen voluntary, bowed to us, and
teetered off the stage.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
HEALTH IN EXERCISE.
It is Subject All People Would Do
Well to Study
Halls Journal of Health.

Halls Journal of Health.
Proper and appropriate exercise is
essential to health. There can be no
healthy development without it. No
subject is so much talked about and
so little understood by most persons.
Every one can discourse gibly on the
subject, and in a general way pre-
scribe it for every ailment. Twenty
years ago the hobby was cold-water
bathing; ten years later warm water
was substituted for cold; then the
gymnasium, with its dumbbells and
lifting" machines-"health lifts"
as they are called, and 1 think very
properly, because no device, save
dumbbells, could lift a mans health
and carry it away more effectually.
The gymnasium would bea valuable
institution if all who 60 there to ex-
ercise would limit their gyrations and
contortions within reasonable bounds.
But there is always more or less
rivalry in the performance of diff
cult feats, and the actors are. often
goaded on beyond the point of safety.
1t is, perhaps, better to take no eXer-
else than to carry one thing to excess ;
but it should be an easy matter to
regulate the amount to the require
ments of individual. If this is done
its effects are marvellous. A few
simple rules are sufficient. Never ex-
ercise to the extent of great fatigue.
Stop short of that, and you are al
ways gaining strength; go beyond,
and you lose strength in proportion.
The best exercise is horseback riding,
because it keeps all the muscles in
motion, involuntarily; the horse
lends you his muscles. Walking is
the next best method all the muscles
are brought into use, but it requires
an effort of the will to maintain the
motion, and this detracts from its
value. Every one has noticed how
much more sprained wrist, for ex-
ample, is relieved when it is rubbed
briskly by another person than when
rubbed by the other hand of the pa
tent. There is something soothing
in passivity. 1t is said that lazy peo-
pie live the longest, and that may be
the reason.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05

II Is a well-known fact that most Of the
Horse and Cattle Powder sold In this cedn-
try Is worthless; that Sheridan's Condition
Powder 10 absolutely pure and very valuable.
Nothing on Earth will make hens
lay like Sheridan's Condition Pow
der. Dose, one teaspoonful to each pint of
food. twill also positively prevent and
CHICKEN CHOLEE
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
An Exnensive Delay,

Is failing to provide the proper means
to expel from the system those dis
ease germs which cause scrofula, in
digestion, debility, rheumatism, and
sick headache. The only reliable
means is DIR. Harter's Iron Tsnic.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

OF the great bulk of letters and Pc
titions to Gov. Oglesby relating TO ex-
ecutive clemency for the anarchists, it
is reported from the governors office
that the far greater portion of them
are demands that the decisions Of the
courts shall not be interferred with.
This excess of protests against commu-
tation over petitions for it, Is some
thing unusual if not altogether UMPIRE
cedented, and because of the depart
ure from the rule heretofore OBJ
tanning, gives emphasis to that strong
public sentiment which believes the
good of society will be best subserved
by the execution of the orders of all
the courts.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

A WISCONSIN anarchist has run his
course of misconceived elderly
rather quickly. He threw bomb al
the mayor of Racine to kill him, for
which attempt at murder he has just
been sentenced to States prison for
ten years. These socialists who preach
and practice the doctrine OF revo,u
tionizing society-equalizing social
matters and property ownership by
idleness and dynamite bombs will
have to be made 10 understand that
their wiltul destruction of life and
property will not be regarded as po-
litical methods, but that arson is arson
and murder will be punished as muir
der.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

UNLIKE the Waco papers, the Deni-
son News realizes the fact that the pros
perity of Dallas is evidence of State
prosperity. The News says:
And now Dallas rises up and con-
graduates herself on having made the
largest sale of real estate known TO
the history of the United States, when
her suburban property of Oak CHI
was put on sale. Denison congratu'
lates Dallas on this evidence of her
prosperity. The State gains when
eve, any town in her borders makes a
ten. strike.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

THEevil influence of one publication
and the rapidity with which lie can
travel. and the hardness with which
truth pursues it, is represented in the
yillianous Cincinnati Commercial
Gazettes publication of the silly re.
port that at the public discussion in
Cleveland last week when Gen. Nor
gan, Democratic ex-Federal soldier,
made some complimentary allusion to
the South, the restored union, and
Gov. Gordon, the governor went
across the platform and kissed the
general. The disgusting story from
the telegraphed report to the Com
mercial Gazette got into the Associ-
ated Press report and has been pub
lisbed once or twice in every daily
paper in the country. But now comes
the Cincinnati Enquirer and Atlanta
Constitution, containing interviews
with General and Governor Morgan
respectively, and in the course of the
interviews, both denied very emphatic
ally the absurd story, explaining that
that was about the only way the radi-
cal sheet could counterfeit the effect
of the loyal and Democratic sentiment
there expressed. SANDER and mis-
representation we're the methods Of
Forsker's supporters.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

A NOVEL and horrible story OF
wholesale poisoning OF young hus-
bands comes from Pesth, through the
London press:
Young married farmers have been
dying off with dreadful suddenness in
the villages of Sirnia, in Eastern Cor
tia. These young farmers were all
brand new husbands, and at last their
deaths, all coming so soon after their
marriage, excited suspicion and the
matter was Investigated 1t was found
that an old woman had conceived the
idea OF getting pretty young girls to
marry farmers and then poison them
and divide the spoils. The old woman
is now in jail and 80 are seven young
widows to whom she had furnished
poison with which to kill the hus-
bands. These arrests were all made
last week in single village, and lots
OF other arrests are anticipated. En-
gagged and hewly-married couples in
that part OF the country are not very
confident of their standing at present.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

THE Denison News thus expresses
what has now become pretty COM
mon sentiment:
Too many fairs and expositions can
not be held in Texas. Grayson coun-
ty should profit by the example OF
other counties about he: and be ready
to make home display next season.
Every town in Texas should have
its Fair.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

D. Goslin the manager
Of the old reliable China
Hall told us time and
again he would give us
an '.ad" about his beau
tiful China Dinner, Tea
and Chamber sets---his
elegant art glass ware---
his silver-plated and 9TH
or ornamental House
Furnishing goods, but it
seems he will never get
time enough to do so, we
therefore take upon our
selves to say it is the
cheapest and best place
in toWn---convince your
selves. Cor. Elm and
Murphy streets.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09
wednesday, Nov. 8, 1887.

CISCO has this fall already paid $685.
600 for pecans, and Shackelford coun-
tvs crop was estimated at $4,000 two
weeks ago. Brown and Coleman coun-
ties will exceed either. This is agreat
relief to the people ofthat section who
suffered from short crops last year.
The west is again on the eve OF a fair
prosperity.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

Don't say that there are no cheap lots
left in Dallas; but call around and lei
Richardson 81 Miller. show you those
elegsnt residence lots in the choicest
neighborhood Ill the city, only one
block from street cars. Now mark the
price. Only $500 per lot. One-half
cash, balance on long time. Richard
son & Miller, Real Estate Brokers, 10y
Sycamore street. Dallas, Texas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09
THE ELECTIONS YESTERDAY.

There we're important elections III
q number of states yesterday. Partic.
ular interest, however, was centeleo
IN New York which is ever regarded
AZ the pivota, state in Presidential
campaigns and the result yesterday
will enthuse and depress respectively
the national parties as they were sue
cessful or defeated in that state.
Eight hundred and ten districts out
Of n total of Si2 in New York City
give Cook (dem.) 1lS,35O, Grant rep)
$500. Kings county complete, includ-
ing Brooklyn, gives Grant 45,7ol' COOK
IS 800. George 1926. Returns from
A65 election districts in New YORK
State. outside of New York and Kings
county, give Cook 7O,lS7, Grant 81, l63'
Huntington (pro.) 754l, George 1907
The same districts in 1895 gave Hill
rs. 375. Davenport 1918, Bascom 1924
The State is claimed bv the Demo-
Gratis by about $1,000 majority.
Next, Ohio leads in interest, as there
was an exciting State election Tor
State officers and legislature, III
which prejudice against the South and
hatred for Mr.. Jefferson Davis were
the political capital OF the Foraker
Republicans, aud where it is earnestly
hoped enough conservative Republi-
cans have voted against Foraker to Sc
verely and justly rebuke that old worn
bloody-shirt style of campaign.
But il is doubtful.
Iowa, elected governor and other
State officials and Legislature, Re-
publican, of course, but by largely re-
duced majority, partly because of the
Democratic arti-protection policy
and from this growth Of Democratic
sentiment the tariff-reform Democrats
should take courage and improve the
opportunity here suggested to carry
the west next year OH straight out
tariff reduction platform.
Mississippi elected legislature ana
county officers with opposition tickets
only in a few counties.
Maryland gave an increased Demo-
cratic majority for Democracy and a
continuance of Democratic reform,
electing governor, state officers and
legislature.
A congressional vacancy was filled
in the sixth Louisiana district, in the
election of another Democrat.
In Massachusetts,, the Democratic
one-legged ex Federal and Knight OF
Labor candidate for governor was de-
feated by Lowering, Republican for
governor by majority of $4,000 or
$4,000. Legislature very likely Re-
publican.
Nebraska elected supreme judge
and two university regents Republi-
cans.
Oregon also elected a governor and
state officers the Democrats being sue
cess ul along with the defeat of State
prohibition.
Pennsylvania elected State tr ,as-
urer and judge of the supreme court
Republican by $4,000 majority.
Virginia elected its legislature
good majority being Democrats-and
Malone will now be succeeded by
Gov. Fitz Lee.
Altogether the Democrats have no
cause for regret at the returns SO far,
and the HERALD believes to-morrow's
report will be still more favorable.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

"Hello! John Dixon, where have
you been and what makes you look so
smiling%
al have been down to Webster's
photograph gallery and he has made
me some of the incest pictures you
ever laid your eyes on, and they look
like they was alive-perfect in every
way-look at one and judge for your
self"
swell, th,y are good. | will 90
down and get some myself"
ale takes them in all styles, from
the head to life-size. You can find
him at SO3 Elm street or at SO4 Main
street"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

The Nicaragua canal project offers
field for rich and speculative gent
us. The De Lesseps canal has failed
$3OO,0OO,OOO in debt, and Eads' ship
railway scheme to connect the Two
oceans over the narrow neck of land,
has about been abandoned as imprac-
ticable. But with Yankee ingenuity
and American money the thing is not
yet to be given up as impossible
There are many who think this gov
ernmept should give financial aid to the
scheme and secure its early accom-
plishment; but there is field for too
much booole" to admit of such
measure ever passing congress.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

War, pestilence and famine destroy
COUNTLESS Thousands But Indigestion,
dyspepsia, arrangement of the liver
end stomach are powerful foes 10 the
human race. Morris Cascarine will
defeat their ravages.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09
For Rent Cheap,

A fine room with power if desired
adjoining HERALD press room, 506
and 5OS Main street, up stairs. Apply
to HERALD
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09

Those who are inclined to bilious
ness will find Morris Cascarine an I'M
failing remedy for it's eradication.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-09
Notice TO 0CCupatiQA Tax PAYERS

The grand jury is now in session. Those
who are due an occupation tax to the State
and county should pay same at once and
avoid trouble. Respectfully,
G. b. GILLESPIE,
Tax Collector Dallas County.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-07-16

EVANSVILLE, IND, July 7.-Excitement In
Perry County is running high, aud in Can.
Melton and Tell City people are at fever
heat. Absconding Treasurer Miller hav-
ing sent the combination to tho vault back,
the commissioners had the Treasury
vault opened last evening, when IL was
found that Miller had made clean sweep,
the vault containing nothing but pair of
suspenders aad three two cent pos
tage stamps. Miller's bondsmen are fran
tic, and are trying to get out of making his
stcalings good. Some are transferring
their property, others making preferred
creditors and others seeking other ave-
nues of escape. 1t will be hard matter
to fill the Office, two treasurers having
defaulted within few months, and no
man can qualify in the office who can not
deposit in cold cash the amount of the
bond. Miller's delinquency will foot up
about S40, 900 to the county and $4,000 al
together. To add to the excitement,
Prosecuting Attorney Vance skipped at
three o'clock this morning, It being a.
legged that he was guilty Of bribinga a jury.
The facts in the case just leaked out yes
terday, and it is likely that some of the
jurymen that Vance tampered with will
follow in the prosecuting attorneys wake.
Vance, like Miller, stood high in the COM
munity. He leaves small family. Miller
has nine children. Floyd Mason, wealthy
citizen, will probably be called upon to
succeed Miller, he being amply able to de-
posit half million dollars in cash in
bank
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-07-16
BABY ANDREWS BrRrHMARK.
Mime. Dc Benkalear and DIR. Birt Heavily
Fined for Destroying It.

Mime. De Benkalear and DIR. Birt Heavily
Fined for Destroying 1t.
CHICAGO, July s.-Mme. De Benkalear
and DIR. Brit were each fined $500 and sem
fenced to thirty days in the county jail by
Judge Tuthill to-day, for destroying tho
birthmark on the person of baby Andrews,
concerning the possession of whom q
struggle has been in progress In the courts
for several days. Contempt OF court was
the offense for which this punishment was
administered. It consisted in tam.
pering with evidence, and the evidence
was the birthmark by means of which the
child was identified. Nine. De Benkalear
acknowledged having ordered the flesh
cut away from the child, and DR.. Brit ad.
mitted having performed the operation.
Judge Tuthill, with extreme severity, de-
clared that no excuse or any sentiment
that he had heard could excuse the bar
barity which caused the mutiation of the
child, and thereupon passed sentence upon
the culprits. An appeal was taken.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-07-16
The Mannix pefalcaiion.

CINCINNATI, July fudge SHREDDER, Of
the Hamilton County common pleas court,
has announced decision by which the de-
falcation Of John B. Mannix, assignee of
the Purcells, is fixed at 1914, 4l3.9l, of
which amount ST,91s.11 belonged to the
John b. Purcell estate, and 1896, ,495. 80 to
the Edward Purcell estate. The liability
of NJ. Clements and H. H. Hoffman (bonds-
men) is fixed at s3s, ,959 each, less some small
credits, and that of Chas. Stewart John
Holland and M. Walsh something over
$4,000 each. Upon this decision Judge
Hoadly, who paid s62, 500 to be relieved of
responsibility, paid more than his share,
even with the $1,000 attorney fee allowed
him. The decision finds that Mannix's 8
speculations were on his own account and
for his owD benefit, and allows him no
fees. His conduct in the administration of
the trust assumed by him is severely criti-
cised.